An aspirant's several years search for Allah, made possible by His grace/mercy ,and not through any efforts of the seeker

Thursday, August 8, 2013

114. Godpart eighteen

Please read blog 113 for continuity

Science has no
explanation for prophecies, miracles, spirits, and granting of prayers.

How can
anybody tell the future which has not been made yet? To have my grandfather
buried in the same grave with his son, required a colossal event to happen, in
which millions suffered. For Swami Vivekananda to see the event of the silver
cup 43 years in advance, only a Divine power had to be involved. How did Swami
Yukteswar know that the veterinarian will fall ill soon, recover, and die 6
months later? How did he know that Yogananda will be fed strawberries in
America? And Kasha did die, as predicted.

How can
one explain the vision of the teacher putting a garland of flowers on the
president’s neck and receiving a check; Baroda Babu’s telling Dilip Kumar Roy,
12 years in advance, that he will have to wait for Indra Devi to join him as
his disciple for his real progress,, and also telling him about what Sri
Aurobindo advised him regarding his hernia.

One does
not have any explanation of Indra Devi’s vision of the pilot dying in crash one
year in advance and then his spirit coming to Indra.

As for
as miracles are concerned, Indra Devi transformed sandy earth into sweets, Sri
Yukteswar appeared in flesh and blood, twice, to Yukteswar, once when he was
waiting for him to come by train from Calcutta, and once when he was
resurrected from dead. I have narrated Data Gunj Bakhash’s miracles: protection
from rain and mud, appearance of dates and out of season grapes, talking to a
pillar in the mosque and getting the answer, and the mystic knowing what the
three dueveshes had in mind.

The
episode of ‘Ninety’ and appearance of letters from thin air, are miracles.
Beyond scientific explanation.

Finally,
Dilip Kumar Roy gets his wish, and the lamp lights up, and then is
extinguished.

Levitation
of St Teresa of Avila was a miracle, and so was Christ restoring vision to the
blind and taking away the severe pain of the sick man.

The Yogi
created the perfumes out of thin air, both for Paul Brunton and the young
Yogananda.

What
powerful miracles of Therese Neumann not eating and drinking for twelve years
and Giri Bala for fifty-six years! Do
you need any other proof, it shows the power of God

The
great yogi Pranabananda assumed another replicate body and thus had two bodies
at the same time, when young Yogananda visited him (I think it was for
Yogananda’s education).

The
raising from dead of Rama, by Lahiri Mahasaya, was a powerful miracle (I think
it was for Sri Yukteswar’s education)

The
proof of spirits of people who once inhabited earth, is, in the end, a proof of
a Divine system, and God. We were made aware of the restless spirit of Bimla
Kumari in the haunted house. In blog 108, Prophets Jesus, Muhammadpbuh Krishna,
visited the devotees. Data Gunj Bakhash, an eleventh

The resurrected Sri Yukteswar
talked not only to Yogananda but also to his disciple, Ma

The spirit of Yogananda came out
of his picture and helped Sri Daya Mata.

St Teresa of Avila saw the spirit
of Jesus and Fray Peter of Alcantara many times.

The spirit of St Mira came
hundreds of times to Indra Devi, and dictated her songs, sometimes in a
language which Indra did not know.

Paul Brunton, became his own
spirit, and saw his own motionless body lying on the stone slab in the Great Pyramid of Egypt.

As I have said
before, nothing convinces me more about the existence of God, than His granting
the prayers. I have narrated seven examples. Three prayers were unique, and the
other four had the quality of last appeal. Shahab’s prayer to God, to allow the
spirit of Fatimapbuh to talk to her father, and getting his
permission for Shahab to travel in search of God, through a particular path,
was unique. And what a way of confirmation; a letter from Germany! Mr.
Shevani’s prayer to meet the greatest Qalndar of this era, and his spending his
life with him was also unique. Who would ask for such a thing? Giri Bala’s
prayer, wanting not to eat anything, was so unique, that even the guru remarked
that God was touched by its extraordinary nature.

God listened to Mufti Sahib (even
Mufti Sahib himself told it to a friend, that God listens to him) and came to
his help, twice. This is the same Mufti Sahib (I have mentioned it in Foreword
to book two) who did not have the courage to enter Kaaba for several days, and sat outside. He prayed to Allah “make
me Yours”

The prayer of the man for debt
relief shows that God has compassion. Not Spinoza’s passionless, inaccessible,
remote God.

At the end, let me
answer the question: is God personal or impersonal? Let me explain, by personal
God, it is meant that God is approachable. He listens to you, and helps you, if
He deems it fit. A friend once said, “I tell God, even if my shoe lace breaks,
and ask Him to give me one”. On the other hand, impersonal God is not approachable. He does
not have human feelings like joy, anger, compassion.

The answer, according to this
mote’s understanding, is, Both.Part of God is remote and inaccessible and
part of it is personal and approachable